Comments on: 'Snood' Finally Coming to iPhone as 'Snood Redood'

By: Steve Sabol

Steve Sabol — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:19:05 +0000

Between Civilization, Snood, and Madden, the time vultures of yesteryear are/will be alive and well and living on my iPhone.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:52:13 +0000

Somehow missed Snood back in the good old days ... maybe I\'ll try it this time around.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:00:16 +0000

Snood was the best!!! I can remember all my friends being absolutely hooked on the game. With such a huge following, iPhone Snood is sure to be a huge hit. Maybe even #1 if priced right...

By: Dayv

Dayv — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:52:09 +0000

I'll hold out for Bust-A-Move, even if it costs more, to avoid the ugliness of Snood.

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:08:59 +0000

I love Snood! This is a very addicting game - now I'll never get off the iphone! I like the look of the Deep too - will pick that one up today!

By: areg

areg — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:49:41 +0000

clone of the clones of the clones.

By: joe

joe — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:49:49 +0000

does it come with trojans too?

By: Septimus

Septimus — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:00:53 +0000

To be fair, of the 6 or so Mac gamers (of which I was/maybe still am) aren't that fussed.

By: Septimus

Septimus — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:59:48 +0000

More like, oh shit Bust-A-Move is coming, quick get this announced now!

By: Capone

Capone — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:59:25 +0000

Well, Snood is one of the most famous games on the Macintosh platform. Especially in the 90ies almost every Mac gamer loved Snood.
I look forward to the release. I'm curious how it will work on the iPhone.

By: Erick

Erick — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:40:57 +0000

Well, I played Bust-a-Move long before Snood. But Snood (prior to version 3.0) was by far the better-designed game. There are subtle tweaks in Snood (notably, danger bar manipulation and loose collision detection), putting the emphasis on strategy rather than aiming precision. At first Evil level looks impossible to win, but with careful planning one can clear a random board 99% of the time. This made Snood a far deeper and more satisfying experience (looking beyond the cheesy graphics).

Then in 3.0, they added the same type of tacky power-ups as Bust-a-Move and ported to Windows. The strategic depth of the game was lost (although could be recovered by turning off the bonuses), but also the mouse tracking became horribly clunky and unusable in 3.0. I stopped playing Snood after moving to OS X since 2.x was a Classic app.

By: Lucky

Lucky — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:35:44 +0000

it looks like a mess XD ugly ...

By: Oneiromancer

Oneiromancer — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:43:51 +0000

Although Bust-A-Move came out in the arcades in 1994, beating Snood's release by 2 years, from what I can tell Snood was the only one of the two games to be released on a Mac. Considering the proliferation of Macs throughout schools in the US, including colleges, it's not surprising to me that a lot of people have fond memories of Snood compared to Bust-A-Move. I'm pretty sure that I played Snood before Bust-A-Move, on my college roommate's Mac.

For the record, I'm not a fan of this sub-genre so I don't really care much about this release, but I wanted to pass on the history lesson.

By: Commander Keen

Commander Keen — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:21:08 +0000

I never understood how an ugly flash ripoff of Bust-A-Move became a selling title on multiple platforms.

By: danny

danny — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:41:36 +0000

I love snood